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Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was born in Liverpool's Allerton suburb on 21 November 1932, [5] the daughter of Winifred Baines and Richard Bainbridge. She grew up in the nearby town of Formby . Although she often gave her date of birth as 21 November 1934, she was born in 1932 and her birth was registered in the first quarter of 1933. [ 6 ]
The Bottle Factory Outing is a 1974 novel by English writer Beryl Bainbridge. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year, [1] won the Guardian Fiction Prize [2] and is regarded as one of her best. [3] It is also listed as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time by Robert McCrum of The Observer. [4]
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Mum and Mr. Armitage is the first short story collection by English author Beryl Bainbridge containing twelve stories and published in 1985 by Gerald Duckworth & Co and in 1987 by McGraw-Hill in the United States.
Its Liverpool accents are thickly impenetrable. And Ms. Bainbridge's book is elliptical to begin with, which guarantees that some of its fine points will be lost in translation. Mr. Newell directs his actors beautifully, but the screenplay by Charles Wood echoes Ms. Bainbridge in letting important information fly by obliquely. So listen closely.
According to Queeney is a 2001 Booker-longlisted [1] biographical novel by English writer Beryl Bainbridge.It concerns the last years of Samuel Johnson and his relationship between Hester Thrale and her daughter 'Queeney'.
The Birthday Boys is a novel by Beryl Bainbridge. First published in 1991, this book tells the story of Captain Robert Scott's 1910-13 expedition to Antarctica. [1]
Harriet Said... was the first novel written by Beryl Bainbridge, based on newspaper reports about the Parker–Hulme murder case in New Zealand which involved two young girls. [1] Although completed in 1958 [2] it was rejected by several publishers in the late fifties, and one of the rejections is quoted on the flyleaf of the first edition: